Number of confirmed Covid-19 patients in Thailand remains at 50

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Number of confirmed Covid-19 patients in Thailand remains at 50

By The Nation

 

 

The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases remain at 50 in Thailand while the government has started quarantine of illegal labourers returning from South Korea.

 

Of the 50, 18 people are being treated in medical facilities, while 31 have recovered and there has been one death.

 

On Sunday (March 8), at Sattahip Naval Base in Chonburi province, Deputy Health Minister Satit Pitutacha spoke of cooperation between the Public Health Ministry and the Royal Thai Navy for state quarantine to detain illegal labourers returning from South Korea for14 days.

 

The Navy house in Sattahip is capable of accommodating up to 750 people while those showing Covid-19 symptoms will be transferred to nearby hospitals.

 

Legal labourers and other travellers from South Korea will be screened at the airport. if they have fever or respiratory symptoms, they will also be sent to the designated hospital. The rest will be sent to a local quarantine area arranged by the provincial administration office, public health doctors and related agencies. There will be a 14-day quarantine as well.

 

"We request illegal workers from South Korea who have not passed screening measures to report to the provincial Public Health Office within three days or else they will be arrested for violating the law under the Communicable Disease Act 2015," said Satit.

 

The latest number of the first group of illegal labourers was 60 -- 27 men and 33 women.

 

Three women are pregnant and two are suspected cases, as they have returned from South Korea's Daegu and neighbouring North Gyeongsang provinces. All will be provided three meals and guarded 24 hours.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30383636

 

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[Thechook]

But there is 1300 people they can't find and test.

[mark131v]

And let's not forget the 70 or 80 who have done a runner from Sattahip after returning from Korea

 

''The returning Thai labourers will be in quarantine at Sattahip Army house.

 

Satit admitted that 200 Thai labourers had arrived. Some of them were resisting the screening measure from the health officers and some 70-80 had fled''

 

 

Never mind Thai authorities have assured us that this is under control so it must be true...

Edited March 8, 2020 by mark131v

[legend49]

Northern Ireland today reported much higher numbers than Thailand. Go figure who is telling the total truth?

[Assurancetourix]

Both countries speak the truth.
You just have to know that Thailand does not have the means or more simply does not want to test potential patients.
No test = no sick ...
It's as simple as that.

[Oziex1]

Thailand steady while cases around the world are increasing?

[soalbundy]

The only place in the world where the numbers remain static. Falang statistics not same same Thai statistics.

[FarFlungFalang]

Infection numbers are a controlled substance.Thailand is doing a wonderful job of controlling infection numbers but I'm not sure they a doing such a wonderful job of controlling the number of infections!

[Orton Rd]

The number just lacks the zero at the end

[tjo o tjim]

Thailand not doing adequate testing really hurts them in the long run. Sure, they got an extra month of tourist arrivals, but what happens next as travel becomes severely restricted worldwide.

[JimmyTheMook]

Honest administration?

 

Bridge in BKLYN for sale also........ 

Edited March 9, 2020 by JimmyTheMook

[Thailand]

Just a wild guess. I would think the cases in Thailand have to be in excess of a couple of thousand simply based on common sense.

[Assurancetourix]

18 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

The number just lacks the zero at the end

How many " zero " ? 

[RichardColeman]

The explosion outside of Thailand (with all its dangerous area tourists) is to me a clear indication the TAT are controlling the numbers 

[Damrongsak]

5 minutes ago, Thailand said:

Just a wild guess. I would think the cases in Thailand have to be in excess of a couple of thousand simply based on common sense.

Yes, really.  Approximately 7,000 cases in South Korea, Italy and Iran now.  And Thailand had butt-loads of Chinese tourists before all that.

 

 

[tlandtday]

2 minutes ago, Damrongsak said:

Yes, really.  Approximately 7,000 cases in South Korea, Italy and Iran now.  And Thailand had butt-loads of Chinese tourists before all that.

 

 

No garbage bins... no garbage problem.  No testing... no virus problem.  

[Tayaout]

1 minute ago, tlandtday said:

No garbage bins... no garbage problem.  No testing... no virus problem.  

Dead at hospital. Not counted as road fatality. 

[MartinL]

Covid 19 KK Province.pdf

 

My wife got a LINE message yesterday, ostensibly an infographic from the Thai Ministry of Public Health, claiming to detail the incidence of Covid-19 in Khon Kaen province.

 

The 4 captions below the province map say (using my less-than-wonderful Thai reading skills so correct me if necessary) :-

0 risk groups - 19 amphurs.

Risk group less than 20 people - 6 amphurs. (=> 6 cases)

Risk group 21-40 people - 1 amphur. (=> 20 cases)

Risk group more than 40 people - 0 amphurs.

 

At a minimum, that suggests 27 Covid-19 cases in KK province alone - 54% of the total admitted to in Thailand as a whole. 

 

Is this confirmation that someone's telling porkies?

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 9, 2020 by MartinL

[DrTuner]

Starting to hear about people being admitted from kids and their friends now. Last apparently an Italian guy who is the father of one of my daughters schoolmates. Next up I suppose the death counter will start clicking up.

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases remain at 50 in Thailand

As has the screening process and classification of who is a risk.

[TheFishman1]

Laughing out loud who would believe those numbers come on T IT

[Pravda]

For anyone that likes to panic, please remind yourself of this chart widely circulated on social media and also posted here...

 

 

 

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[Ventenio]

look sheepies......forget all this flu non-sense.  heat kills the virus.

 

do you not want to help others???  how to help???  spend your money!!!  Especially now!!!  get on a bus, go to BKK, go to chinese museums and buy as much stuff as possible to help businesses in need!!!

 

I flew over BKK many years ago, and had no problems!!

 

if i could, i would go to BKK .....  but, ahhhhhh, well..... i'm communicating with aliens and that will last a few more months.  

[Jimbo2014]

Teflon Thailand keeps functioning.  No idea how but it does!

[wolf81]

2 hours ago, Oziex1 said:

Thailand steady while cases around the world are increasing?

The Netherlands went from 1 to 250 corona cases in just 2 weeks. Thailand has been below 50 from 2 months now or so. 

[thesetat2013]

This is an impossible number. I'm standing at bus terminal now to go south. Not a single temperature check... No sanitizer.. Nothing to deter the spread of infection. 

[JHolmesJr]

My only wish is this:

Once the virus is passed, people should remember 

all the countries/individuals that put money before health,

that put profiteering before acting decently,

that put inaction before responsiveness.

[brewsterbudgen]

34 minutes ago, JHolmesJr said:

My only wish is this:

Once the virus is passed, people should remember 

all the countries/individuals that put money before health,

that put profiteering before acting decently,

that put inaction before responsiveness.

Have any countries done this?   Most, including Thailand, have followed WHO advice.

[andytime]

Thailand only cares about money -  those who rule it - the wealthy families with business interests of hotels, supermarkets, transport services and their Chinese overlords care about their pockets only.  It is a country where lying is par for the course and mai pen rai is more commonly used than toilet paper.  Disease vectors from Thailand are showing up in other countries. It is one of the more leveraged countries (Australia perhaps beats it) to China.  Interesting times ahead....

[Muzzique]

This will make everyone want to move to Thailand. The healthcare must be amazing to control a virus no other country is able too. Three cheers for the Thai government and their open and honest reporting process. Perhaps the rest of the World should follow their guidelines and the virus would disappear completely overnight. (On paper at least). I'm sure a few hundred thousand extra deaths this year could easily be put down to something else such as Athletes Foot or Verrucas.

Edited March 9, 2020 by Muzzique